CFP: Psychoanalysis and Critical Theory (6/15/07; journal issue)

Postmodern Culture invites submissions for a special issue on "CriticalTheory and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis." We are interested in studiesof the changing aesthetic and political significance of psychoanalyticthought over the last thirty years. Accepted articles will be due byJune 15, 2007. Direct inquiries to Jan Mieszkowski (mieszkow_at_reed.edu)or to pmc_at_jefferson.village.virginia.edu.

Contributions might consider:How is the Frankfurt School's interpretation of psychoanalysis relevanttoday? In what respects are Adorno's positions on the politics ofpsychoanalysis more important than Marcuse's (or Benjamin's)? What isthe current status of poststructuralist critiques of Freud (e.g., inDeleuze and Guattari or de Man)? Are efforts to unite Freudian andMarxist categories most productive when (and if) they reveal such asynthesis to be impossible? Has the success of phenomenology served todisplace philosophical psychology in ideology critique, and to whatextent can this be attributed to the influence of Levinas or Derrida?Are structuralist-Lacanian ideologies of religion, sacrifice, orabjection of less political value than their proponents suggest?